原文: I think it’s a good time to revisit $SIVE ~$427m/yr midpoint capacity revenue modeled projections.
Given recent industry earnings:
> $AAOI cited +20-40% demand imbalance for transceivers (with lasers as the bottleneck).
> $MTSI saying many "Customers are coming to us with urgency due to the general supply shortage of indium phosphide DFB lasers" (in other product lines)
> US proposal ban on new Chinese optical transceivers (Innolight/Eoptolink)
> AOI no meaningful participation in first-gen CPO deployments due to lasers being allocated toward transceivers.
The read through is that it’s possible to apply the same capacity-demand absorption modeling applying to $AAOI, but for other laser players like Sivers too.
Given the widespread shortage and demand imbalance for InP CW DFB capacity.
原文: Today I'm writing a weekend guide on how to do DD when shorting $NBIS:
First, you look at hyperscaler earnings for AI cloud read through:
> $GOOGL: reports record AI cloud demand + backlog + margin increases from earnings
> $AMZN: reports record AI Cloud demand + backlog + margin increases from earnings
> $META: reports higher than expected prices for available capacity from earnings.
Now, time to look at Nebius:
-> $NBIS: Growing hundreds of percent to $7-9B ARR by Q4. Growing margins, and guided 4GW+ contracted power. -> Sees Uber/Waymo splitting, putting more focus on Avride -> Sees Clickhouse growing rapidly every quarter.
Okay looks bad! But next, you need a hedge?
-> Wow! A $NIKE brand executive, after the stock dropped 75% over the past 5 years, went to $LULU to save that brand next? Lululemon seems good.
原文: Yes, I'm still bullish on memory like $MU / Samsung.
As I said earlier, markets tend to rotate from bottleneck to bottleneck.
This week it looks $AXTI to $LITE in the photonics sector is the focus again.
The thing is... the primary thing that changed are the stock prices, followed by some narratives + updates sprinkled in here and there.
For photonics:
> We already knew $COHR / $LITE lasers were completely sold out for the next 2 years during July's drop.
> We knew about demand imbalance from $AAOI from last quarter's earnings calls.
Nothing deteriorated fundamentally during July's crash, other than listed price after liquidations.
Yet tons of people called $AAOI a "scam" when it dropped to $75, or $AXTI a "scam" on its drop to $35...
But are bullish again at $140 or $80, when the transciver/InP substrate bottleneck hasn't changed at all, but maybe even got worse... (eg. draft for US ban on new china optical transceivers, scale up demand projections)
For Memory:
I'm witnessing a lot of retail capitulation, but the same people I'm seeing were mega bullish after $MU signed 16 SCAs and gave exceptional projections a month ago.
Or were celebrating Samsung having the highest operating profit in the world.
There's updates here and there eg. Rubin Ultra with memory optimizations (which Nvidia strives for every generation), with prices no longer being hiked way above expectations to the extreme.
But the operating income relative to MC is just absurd around current prices, especially memory becomes structural.
And the demand imbalance should be even worse next year.
People tend to capitulate and follow narratives when a sector drops (eg. Helium/LNG back in Iran war), even if the bottleneck or fundamental situation hasn't really changed much (eg. $SPCX Elon earnings call reiterating memory tightness).